As we celebrate victories in marriage equality and other advances in LGBT rights, we also need to be mindful of the big-picture human rights issues that threaten our quality of life, health, and our very survival. Read More

According to an Ohio State University investigation, members of the school's famous marching band reportedly sang songs mocking "fags with AIDS" and "dirty fags [who] love to molest little children."Read More

Minnesota's top newspaper is calling for the resignation of Catholic Archbishop John Nienstedt, who is under investigation for claims that he covered up sexual abuse and possession of child pornography by priests and allegedly engaged in sexual relationships with other men.Read More

When we are gone, and this time and this movement are empty shells of memory, will we leave behind a beautiful ruin that people revisit for inspiration or hope, or will our legacy be an eyesore on the banks of history?Read More

Controversial Georgian soprano Tamar Iveri announced last week that she intends to apologize to the LGBT community by holding a benefit concert for victims of violence and dedicated to gays, lesbians, and other sexual minorities.Read More

After almost two decades spent fighting against equality - including 15 consecutive years worth of failed shareholder resolutions to put the four words in the company's nondiscrimination policy - ExxonMobil will once again prove that they are the worst of the worst.Read More

In pursuing a quick fix to a chronic border-refugee crisis, the United States risks worsening the long-term refugee problem and jeopardizing Central American LGBTs who confront violence and injustice.Read More

Russian LGBT activist Andrew Nasonov received harassment, intimidation, beatings, and death threats for his human rights work. But when police abducted him and threatened his family, he knew he had to leave.Read More

It wasn't until I was in the midst of working that evening that I realized how much a lack of social contact with gay men in particular, was something that I need in my life, and don't tend to get.Read More

The Texas Republican party plank endorsing ex-gay therapy was written by a man using a fake name with longstanding ties to a registered sex offender and a history of sexual compulsion and deceit.Read More

With Uganda's abhorrent record on LGBT rights and recently disturbing laws that criminalize homosexuality, the Society of Friends, one of the nation's oldest religions and a founding pillar for progressivism, has stepped up to help the cause.Read More

A report from the U.K. released last week suggests that alkyl nitrates -- the popular inhaled aphrodisiac more commonly known as "poppers" -- may be linked with eye damage, possibly because of the introduction of a new formula.Read More

The company's marketing team are good at public relations and advertising campaigns. They know their demographic and they hit it. But what if they were a little more honest with the mouthpieces shilling for their horror farms?Read More

Crohn's Disease is no laughing matter. It is a debilitating autoimmune diseases that ravages through your gastrointestinal system like a piranha attacked to a fireball. It's painful and disgusting. Plainly spoken, it hurts... really bad. Read More

Beth White, the Indiana County Clerk who immediately started issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples after the state's law banning same-sex marriage was deemed unconstitutional, gave a local LGBT youth group a check for $9,808 yesterday.Read More

A Kentucky woman, who was fired by U.S. Bank after refusing repeated warnings to stop asking customers whether they'd found Jesus, is suing the company for religious discrimination and claiming she was "persecuted" for her Christian beliefs.Read More

Four high-profile Hollywood executives have been slapped with salacious gay sexual abuse lawsuits in recent weeks by a single lawyer. But while the cases are imploding, the damages to their reputations may be permanent.Read More

A Russian lawmaker is demanding that the country redesign its 100-ruble banknote, featuring the Greek god Apollo, because he says the deity's tiny penis presents a potential threat to children.Read More

Russian Orthodox priest Alexander Shumsky is glad his country's team was knocked out of the World Cup... because he says it's an "abomination" and part of a worldwide homosexualist war on Christianity.Read More

A lingerie store in Austin, Texas, faced a strong social media backlash after an employee there allegedly discriminated against a transgender woman last week. The controversy highlights the difficulty trans people face in accessing gender-appropriate facilities.Read More

When applied ever so slightly to the right social situation, etiquette has the power to render us our best, well behaved selves; when applied with a heavy hand, it has the power to asphyxiate.Read More

Last weekend, under a balmy evening sky outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Proposition 8 plaintiffs Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami exchanged wedding vows as family and friends looked on with swelled hearts.Read More

As the "rockets red glare and bombs burst in air" this July Fourth, American women still do not have the right to decide what to do with their bodies - a core American value inextricably linked to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Read More

In their noble effort to be culturally sensitive to the legacy of Western imperialism, Westerners who blame homophobia in developing countries exclusively on colonialism inadvertently become what they despise. Read More

Remember Saint Hoax, the artist who turned world leaders like Vladimir Putin into drag queens? She's back with a new twist on the Disney Princesses - using their images in a rape awareness campaign.Read More